AD Can’t Find PDC, DNS Miss-hap?

[r00tb00t]

Hey Guys,
It’s my first post here for some reason as I have read several articles on afp548 and found several good solutions on the forums but never posted so thought I’d sign up and give it a go!

I have an existing Mac-only network with an OD Master. The OD Master is also a PDC (and a DNS Server for that network as its the only server on that network) and I am trying to create a BDC Win2003 server to which my windows clients can hang off, however; when I run dcpromo and try to join my 2k3 server to the domain it can’t find it?

Its says it queried the DNS and can’t find the SRV record (which is fair enough as Mac doesn’t have these silly DNS entries like Winblows does). So, how am I going to get my Win2k3 Server to find the domain? I have thought about entering the DNS entries by hand (like ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mydomain.tld) but there is a fair few and I don’t think that’s going to work, would I need a windows DNS server for this to work as they seem to file things differently (even though they give the same result of a forward/reverse lookup functionality for a network)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have never used OS X as a PDC before!

Regards,

r00tb00t

[zanzan42]

DNS SRV records are not a Microsoft specific animal. That being said, Active Directory has several requirements revolving around SRV records in order for an AD domain to function. You have no choice but to play in that sandbox if you want AD to work for your Windows machines (and any Macs that might be bound to AD).

If you’re going to be installing a Windows 2003 server anyway, I’d recommend just setting up the AD domain on that (make it the PDC) and let it populate your DNS with the right SRV records.

Zanzan

[r00tb00t]

Thanks for your reply Zanzan, this seems strange though seeing as I can bind my server (or a workstation) to the Apple Open Directory Master as a client (and log onto a network account) so why can’t I make a Replica/BDC?

Stupid Windows!

[quote]DNS SRV records are not a Microsoft specific animal.[/quote]

I didn’t think they were as I have seem them on various different DNS servers across different platforms (mostly Debian) however I can’t see why this is such an issue. Seems like another cheap Micro$oft trick so I “have” to put Windows in charge and Apple as the slave and not the other way around? I can’t manually add the records entries either because the OS X DNS Server doesn’t structure its entries in the same way.

Surely this must be possible, do you think it would work if I were to use a separate windows DNS Server? Remove the Apple PDC, set it to use my standalone DNS server, then re-create the PDC? If OS X doesn’t auto-create the required DNS entries for me (like a Windows PDC does upon creation) then at least I might be able to put them in manually?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
r00tb00t 😉

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